...no, that can't be. I heard that one asking around what kind of celebration has penguins as decoration.

[But the mention of the penguin has her tilting her head. Say, now that she counts how many birds are here...]

There are a number of avian individuals in this room. Perhaps one of the iterations of these games was focused only in this kind of person, or perhaps it was an ill-fated turn on that idiom about birds of a feather flocking together.

[bird-only gimmick murdergame is a plausible possibility isnt it]